Enhancing the OPAC with the Virtual Shelf Browser

Renata DyerManager, Systems and Electronic ServicesHigh Court of Australia Library

ContextOPAC Enhancements Project• implementing book images (incl. TOCs and

Summaries)•utilising 856 and 970 fields to deliver more

meaningful information about online access

•WebBridge feature (basic only) – discovering more in Scholar and Trove

•Enhancing Discovery Experience with Virtual Shelf Browser (VSB)

Why VSB?

•Interactive visual browsing experience•OPAC searching aligned with the Web 2.0

discovery experience (Google Books, etc)•More integrated presentation of third

party supplemental content (book images)

Implementation

•Step 1: exporting the collection titles in tab-delimited file (Review File) to be provided to the vendor

•Step 2: basic configuration done on vendor’s admin site

•Step 3: modifying the bib_display.html in screens files (QR code provided by the vendor)

•Step 4: testing and correcting

Review File Export

•The review file created containing required elements (online location excluded!)

•Exported to .txt•Further cleaning in Excel; file saved

in .txt format•Loaded onto the vendor’s site

Configuration of VSB

Bib_display.html

QR Code provided by the vendor and added to the bib_display.html

<script src="http://ltfl.librarything.com/forlibraries/widget.js?id=1461-2457050331" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript>This page contains enriched content visible when JavaScript is enabled or by clicking <a href="http://ltfl.librarything.com/forlibraries/noscript.php?id=1461-2457050331&accessibility=1">here</a>.</noscript>

Testing - Issues•Some links in VSB to the catalogue page

did not work.•These records were without ISBNs.

•Resolution: configuring title and keyword URLS

More Issues…•Title and keyword URLs often picked up

too many records and in some cases no records at all.

•The records that produced no search results had “too long” titles.

Resolution•What would be the best element from the

MARC record that can be used for URL string?

•Bib record number!•Issue with the bib record number: one

digit longer in Millennium than in OPAC•New tab-delimited file provided to the

vendor; vendor strips out the last digit

Ideal Scenario•The Visual Shelf Browse images are

linked to the bib record

Questions?

Contact:Renata Dyer renata.dyer@hcourt.gov.au Manager, Systems and Electronic ServicesHigh Court of Australia Library